09-06-2022

Cinelink Industry Days Co-Production Market & Drama

    Cinelink Industry Days Reveals Projects Selected For the Co-Production Market and Drama Strands and Announces a New Award

    Sarajevo Film Festival is honored to announce a new development award - Female Voices CineLink Award (€10,000 in cash) presented by Film Center Slovenia. The CineLink will present nine feature fiction and seven drama series projects in the development phase from Southeast Europe.

    The Female Voices CineLink Award is granted to one project in the development participating in CineLink Co-Production or Drama strands with an aim to support and promote female voices in the Southeast European film industry. A director of the Slovenian Film Center, Nataša Bučar shared a motivation behind the award:

    The aim of the Female Voices CineLink Award is to encourage the creation of new stories revealing women’s previously unstated outlooks on the past and fresh approaches to the stories from the present. Everything has already been shown before. However, the strength of every new film story and film character lies in novel approaches and original perspectives.  In recent years, women authors have been enriching the global audiovisual industry more than ever, and we also wish to promote the feminine worldview in our regional audiovisual works.

    In order to cater the specific needs of each project and to prepare them for the market exposure, this year, CineLink Industry Days has developed a range of activities, starting with CineLink Workshop in June, one-on-one meetings during the Festival (August 15 –18), that will continue with online meetings in September. CineLink Team strives to improve the production value by matchmaking the projects with various decision makers in the fileds of production, financing, distribution and sales, as well as offers to aid in script development through extensive sessions. Moreover, the CineLink Co-Production Market offers following cash awards: Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (€20,000), Film Center Montenegro CineLink Award (€ 10,000), Film Center Serbia CineLink Award (€ 10,000) and ARTEKino International Prize (€ 6,000), while the CineLink Drama offers two awards: Croatian Audiovisual Center Drama Award (€15,000) and TV Drama Vision Pitch Award - one project selected to be presented at TV Drama Vision in Göteborg.

    CineLink Co-production Market 2022 Selection:

    ALL THEY KNOW ABOUT LOVE

    Director: Melik Kuru

    Writer: Melik Kuru

    Producer: Irem Akbal

    Production Company: Bal Film

    Country: Turkey

    A well-educated, emotionally underdeveloped translator enjoys the borderline relationship he has with his mother. Starting at a tutoring job in a francophone institution, one of his young students will be strongest obstacle and most reliable guide on this journey.

    THE BOY WITH THE LIGHT-BLUE EYES

    Director: Thanasis Neofotistos

    Writers: Thanasis Neofotistos, Grigoris Skarakis

    Producer: Ioanna Bolomyti

    Production Company: Argonauts Productions S.A.

    Country: Greece

    On the Greek folk mountains, there is a remote superstitious village. PETER, a different teenager, lives there with his strict grandmother & his overprotective mother. Through a series of events, lies revealed, curses are unveiled and Peter will sacrifice his light-blue eyes in order to be free.

    HEAR THE YELLOW

    Director: Banu Sivaci

    Writer: Banu Sivaci

    Producer: Zeynep Koray

    Production Company: ZKF

    Co-production Company: La Fabrica Nocturna

    Country: Turkey

    Successful opera diva SUNA, who refuses male dominance at an early age, escapes from the village she was born. Decades later, she goes back and witnesses possible scenarios of her life, if she stayed.

     

    MUM

    Director: Nikola Ležaić

    Writer: Nikola Ležaić

    Producers: Nikola Ležaić, Siniša Juričić

    Production Company: Qče

    Co-production Company: Nukleus Film

    Country: Serbia, Croatia

    NIKOLA travels with his father to return the remains of his grandmother back to her home village in Croatia. He learns a lesson about parenthood, family, and memories that are sometimes not real.

    PATRIMONIAL FEARS AND OTHER SYMPTOMS

    Director: Elina Psykou

    Writer: Elina Psykou

    Producers: Maria Drandaki, Konstantinos Vassilaros

    Production Company: Homemade Films, StudioBauhaus

    Co-production Companies: Red Carpet Films

    Country: Greece, Bulgaria

    DINOS is the father of LAKIS and Lakis is the father of KONSTANTINOS. All three of them are chubby and scared. Will their fears disappear when David Copperfield makes the Acropolis disappear?

    PETTY THIEVES

    Director: Mate Ugrin

    Writer: Mate Ugrin

    Producers: Daria Blažević, Mate Ugrin, Karsten Krause, Frank Scheuffele, Julia Cöllen, Tiphaine Robion

    Production Company: Fünferfilm (Germany)

    Co-production Companies: Kadromat (Croatia), In The Cut (France)

    Young loner RIO gets by with seasonal jobs and petty thefts in resorts on the Adriatic coast. His carefree everyday life is thrown off balance by ANDREA, a seasonal worker from Serbia who becomes his partner in crime. During the course of the summer, they will spend a short but intense time together, that they will never forget.

    SKATEBOARDING IS NOT FOR GIRLS

    Director: Dina Duma

    Writers: Dina Duma, Lidija Mojsovska

    Producer: Labina Mitevska

    Production Companies: Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Entre chien et Loup

    Country: North Macedonia, Belgium

    When a conservative tradition of bridal sale becomes a solution for a financial family problem, ADELA dives into a completely new world where she gets caught between traditional and modern values.

    WE ALL DIE NAKED

    Directors:  Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci

    Writers: Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci

    Producer: Enea Gramo

    Production Company: Art Film sh.p.k

    Country: Albania

    A recovering Albanian alcoholic and a drunken, dying Italian drive across the Balkans searching for the perfect place to die.

    YUGOSLAVA

    Director: Ivan Bakrač

    Writer: Ivan Bakrač

    Producers: Ivan Bakrač, Nikolina Vučetić – Zečević, Guillaume de Seille

    Production Company: Quadrifolium Films (Montenegro)

    Co-production Companies: Biberche Productions (Serbia), Arizona Films (France)

    On her 55th birthday, in order to overcome complete loneliness, YUGOSLAVA uses a vacation in searching for a new apartment. However, that quest will change her life in different way than she imagined.

    CineLink Drama 2022:

     

    BROTHERS

    Creator: Simon Farmakas

    Writer: Simon Farmakas

    Producers: Alexandra Hoesdorff, Désirée Nosbusch, Fenia Cossovitsa,

    Production Company: Deal Productions

    Co-production Company: BLONDE s.a.

    Country: Greece, Cyprus, Luxembourg

    When the son of a German politician is found dead inside no man’s land dividing Nicosia, opposing detectives, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot are forced to work together to investigate the crime.

    BY LAW

    Creator: Hari Šečić

    Writer: Hari Šečić

    Producer: Hari Šečić

    Production Company: Association Spektar

    Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

    By Law is a police drama series set in modern-day Bosnia. It tells the story of young detective who is solving crimes, realizing that the main problem of the society is corrupted system that he fights.

    GLORIA

    Creator: Balázs Zachar, Marcsi Tóth

    Director: Fanni Szilágyi

    Producer: Balázs Zachar

    Production Company: Proton Cinema

    Country: Hungary

     

    A young nun has to start a new life in the secular world and faces the awakening woman in herself.

     

    HELA AFTER ALL

    Creators:  Saša Podgorelec

    Writers: Jelena Paljan, Antonio Gabelić

    Producers: Aleksandar Janković, Vojislava Janković

    Production Company: United media production

    Country: Serbia, Croatia

    As Croatia's football team paves its way towards the 2018 World Cup finals, the police investigation of the powerful priest's intriguing death devastates the young girl's life.

    NIGHTTIME

    Creators: Nikola Ljuca, Milan Marić

    Writer: Staša Bajac, Nikola Ljuca

    Producer: Milan Marić

    Production Company: Mechanism

    Country: Serbia

    Horror is other people.

    RUMPUS

    Creator: Dubravka Turić, Danijel Žeželj

    Writer: Dubravka Turić

    Producer: Ankica Jurić Tilić

    Production Company: Kinorama

    Country: Croatia

    Investigating the murder of a teenager, the female detective discovers the dark secret of a small industrial town and sinks into the swamp of the evil spirit Rumpus.

    THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR

    Creator: Darko Lungulov

    Producer: Darko Lungulov

    Production Company: Papa Films

    Country: Serbia

     

    A brave Yugoslav man gets killed while trying to stop the assassins of the Turkish ambassador. A controversial Yugoslav lawyer defends assassins blaming the police for accidentally killing the man.